#and overusing exclamation marks!!!!!

[youdonotcompare]

Just a heads up, I've started a new blog dedicated to all my Sanrion content @sanrionedits - from manips to gifs and fanvids (and some edited / reposted fanfics, later this year).

The manips (edits) are entirely created by me, however as the pinned post on that new blog will show, you are welcome to utilize them in your own art work, fic covers, or whatever if you desire to do so!

I make this stuff for all of us to enjoy, after all!!!

The gifs posted are only a droplet of the gifs I've made, and at some point I'll be remaking some older ones to share as well. I will be reposting some more tomorrow, as well as linking to my Sanrion fanvids.

Anyway, I hope you all enjoy revisiting all this older Sanrion content with me, and I look forward to diving back into the pairing with you all!!

Take care everyone and have a fantastic week!

[cristalviper]

Made a sim for @squea's Corn! A friend, a lover, an enemy, who knows! I would like to apologize in advance for all the sliders included in his download, making fat sims is borderline impossible without them! Cries!

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Insert witty bio here! I promise I'll come up with something after some food and a nap ;__; For now I offer you this:

Grant "GiGi" Guillaume - adult, gay, he/him

World-Famous Celebrity Aspiration - squeamish, outgoing, lavish

He only has his everyday outfit since I didn't want there to be an overwhelming amount of CC, but I copied his makeup and accessories to the other outfits to hopefully save you some time when editing him. You can change whatever you'd like, btw; be it gender identity/expression, pronouns, sexuality, whatever!

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Included in the download is all the CC used for him, including a trait mod. Again, I used a LOT of sliders for him, so please keep in mind that if you don't use them all, he may not look as intended. Maybe one day double chins will be base game, right? For sure. Slams face on desk.

[DOWNLOAD] If anything doesn't work or is amiss, please let me know!

[a-different-stroke]

We have matches now!

Check your email inbox or your AO3 profile's Assignments tab!

I wish you a lot of fun creating!

[desert-anne]

i've said this before and i'll say it again: wish it were cool to put a lil smiley face in business emails

[kimjiwoong]

can't believe I would in fact risk it all for a man that sends good morning messages at 5 am, overuses exclamation marks after ellipsis and watches and plays golf 🤧

[lonesome-witching]

Hi <3 I love your writing

HI!!!! OMG THANK YOU!!! This is so nice!!! Thank you for the compliment!!!

[bubblesandpages]

Little rundown of what I’m reading because I’ve been trying to stave off a reading slump for the past sixish months And It Is Not Working. If I was a reasonable person I’d probably let it come on and hang out for a while, but there are seven different titles I need to get through by the end of the month (preferably before than so I can enter The Slump freely) so I’m talking about them here, and maybe it’ll shake things up enough for me to continue reading.

Firstly! Volumes 6-10 of Witch Hat Atelier—I’m choosing to think of these as one of the seven entries since it’s manga, and much easier to breeze through. It is good! Very good even in certain volumes. Richeh‘s my favorite, and Qifrey’s feeding my obsession with mentor characters that do slightly more than you’re run-of-the-mill mentoring.

Secondly! The Scarlett Pimpernel! Whisperings of it’s role as the inspiration for the Bat himself reached me, as well as murmurings of the stupid married couple at its core who are Mutual Pining personified and think Oh They Hate Me, ksjdfgybhdsgjyuhisbvgyhjsb. How could I not be intrigued! I’m about a third in, and it’s been fairly easy to read so far for being a classic.

Thirdly! Ninth House. Out of these first three I’m most interested in this one, I don’t normally dislike Bardugo’s writing style but this one’s really doing it for me. I love the voice she’s developed for this book, and she’s actually managed to make me interested in a university setting—usually I find them so painfully tame and boring. Not so here, I think a combination of her knowledge of the location, the charming map, specific way the characters relate to each location, Alex’s position as an outsider who’s not looking to crush others and rule the school and overall lack of pretentious Ivy Leagueness hates it hates it, and the way Yale feels more like a twisted stone warren that is made up of actual terror and wonder as opposed to other dark academia titles *cough* Babel *cough* is really doing it for me! Creeps me the hell out though!

Fourthly! Project Hail Mary. This one isn’t officially in the line up of seven, but I’m enjoying it too much to stop now. I’m not far enough in to have many thoughts, just know that Andy Weir still knows how to write a binge-worthy page-turner. It’s wacky, it’s weird, it’s smart, there’s a ✨Mystery✨ what’s not to love?

[majoresca]

If you come to my DMs with the phrase: "you seem really odd and your blog intrigues me, do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters".

You don't even need to elaborate that much, you've already got me to talk with you.

Messaging people for the first time is so hard. What am I supposed to say? Like, "You seem really odd and your blog intrigues me. Do you want to have philosophical conversations or perhaps talk about fictional characters?" What! Whatever. I will just follow you back and stare at your blog with my big beautiful brown eyes.

[virmillion]

housekeeping!!! finally migrated all my ragt shit over to its own scrivener document (again... don't pour water on ur laptop bossmen), so here is this post! everything older than this is already in the doc and/or the img folder, and does not need re-categorizing! <3

[moonstandardtime]

not necessarily your favorite punctuation, or your favorite punctuation to use

[lionofchaeronea]

I've been reading the Complete Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and as wonderful as he was, he had an excessive fondness for a certain punctuation mark. So, me being me, I decided to have a little fun with it. Enjoy.

TEXT:

A SONNET: TO THE EXCLAMATION POINT

O exclamation point! Most overused Throughout English Romantic poesy! I marvel at the way thou art abused In every ode and sonnet that I see!

O fair and noble punctuation mark! O ender of each sentence and each clause! When I encounter thee, a voice cries "Hark!", And I compel my reading eyes to pause,

Awaiting some dramatic turn of phrase To drive the shades of boredom all away: Lo! Here it comes! I startle with amaze! And yet, to thee I raise my voice and pray:

O herald of an overheated style, Could we get a question mark once in a while?

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Punctuation Marks

In speaking, we use pauses and the pitch of the voice to make what we say clear. Punctuation plays a similar role in writing, making it easier to read.

Punctuation consists of both rules and conventions. There are rules of punctuation that have to be followed; but there are also punctuation conventions that give writers greater choice.

The standard English punctuation is as follows: period/full stop, comma, apostrophe, quotation, question, exclamation, brackets, braces, parenthesis, dash, hyphen, ellipsis, colon, semicolon.

. PERIOD/FULL STOP

Use a period/full stop to mark the end of a sentence:

We went to France last summer.

We were really surprised that it was so easy to travel on the motorways.

In addition to closing sentences, we also use full stops in initials for personal names:

G. W. Dwyer

David A. Johnston, Accountant

Full stops are also used after abbreviations, although this practice is becoming less common:

Arr. (arrival)

etc. (etcetera)

Dr. (doctor)

, COMMA

We use commas to separate a list of similar words or phrases:

It’s important to write in clear, simple, accurate words.

We do not normally use a comma before and at the end of a list of single words:

They travelled through Bulgaria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland.

American English does use a comma in lists before and:

We took bread, cheese, and fruit with us.

Note: the Oxford comma, also known as a serial comma, is placed immediately before the conjunction—usually “and,”. “or,” or “nor”—in a series of three or more terms.

We use commas to separate words or phrases that mark where the voice would pause slightly:

I can’t tell you now. However, all will be revealed tomorrow at midday.

We had, in fact, lost all of our money.

James, our guide, will accompany you on the boat across to the island.

' APOSTROPHE

Apostrophes are used to mark possession and to mark contractions. They are also used to denote a quotation mark in material that is already being quoted.

It was James’ car that the drunk driver hit.

“James said, ‘If you come any closer I’ll call the police.’”

'...' or "..." QUOTATION MARKS

Quotation marks in English are ‘…’ or “…”. In direct speech, we enclose what is said within a pair of single or double quotation marks, although single quotation marks are becoming more common.

Lydia said, “Is this my prom dress?”

Quotation marks are used to inform a reader either of something that was spoken or something that is being directly copied from another work. Quotes should also be placed around a word if it is used in a specific context or otherwise bears special attention. In informal applications, quotations can also be used to denote something that is ironic.

? QUESTION MARK

Use question marks to make clear that what is said is a question. When we use a question mark, we do not use a period/full stop:

Why do they make so many mistakes?

! EXCLAMATION POINT/MARK

Use an exclamation point/mark after a command or other expression that expresses strong feeling or deserves special emphasis:

For the last time, stop distracting me!

Fire! Fire!

We use exclamation points/marks to indicate an exclamative clause or expression in informal writing. When we want to emphasise something in informal writing, we sometimes use more than one exclamation point/mark:

Listen!!

Use exclamation points sparingly. Overuse dilutes their impact.

( ) [ ] { } PARENTHESIS, BRACKET, BRACES

Parentheses note non-essential information that could be skipped without altering the meaning of a sentence. Brackets are most commonly employed in academic writing within a quotation where the writer is omitting or explaining something. In either case, the writer places a bracket within the quote [explains or places an ellipsis and] closes the bracket to continue the quote. Braces are used quite rarely and are employed to essentially make a list within a list.

Cora (the woman who lives down the street from Jane) works as a paralegal.

Professor Brown claims, “She [the novel’s central character] is an example of a strong African-American woman.”

Before I go on vacation I need to pack my bags {clothes, toiletries and shoes}, unplug the TV, and close all of the windows.

more on: ( ) PARENTHESES

Use parentheses to enclose information that is helpful or informative but not essential:

When you get to that big farmhouse (three miles from I-270), turn left.

If parentheses enclose a question or exclamation, keep the question mark or exclamation point inside the parentheses:

Shema received Omar’s text (when did he get an iPhone 6s?) and replied yesterday.

However, capitalize or include periods only if the parenthetical sentence is not enclosed within another complete sentence:

I told my partner (we had been married only five days) that I missed her desperately.

I told my partner that I missed her desperately. (We had been married only five days.)

more on: [ ] BRACKETS

Use brackets to add an explanation or comment to a direct quote:

Berta wondered aloud, “Why did it [Joker] end that way?”

“This poem [“We Real Cool”] made Brooks famous,” explained Professor Choi.

Use brackets to enclose text that is already in parentheses:

According to this chart (Temperature Extremes [Fig. 4]), we've had a record-setting winter.

Put the Latin word “sic” in brackets to indicate that a mistake in a word or phrase appeared in the original source:

Their fundraising letter began, “Dear Fiends [sic].”

— DASH

Dashes are generally not in common use but denote a tangent within a thought. There are two kinds of dashes, an “en” dash and an “em” dash.

En dashes essentially are the same glyph as hyphens but fill a different purpose. Em dashes are longer, an easy way to remember is that an en dash is the length of an “n” and an Em dash is the length of an “m”.

I think that my dog is a genius — but doesn’t everybody think their pet is?

Dashes are able to substitute for commas and semicolons in the right situation. They can replace commas to note non-essential information or semicolon to note an example. Despite, and because of this versatility dashes should not be frequently employed in your writing.

The multitude of applications make dashes easy to overuse taking away from, rather than adding to clarity in your writing.

Note: Dashes can either connect to the surrounding words or be separated by a space, it is an issue of style, be sure to ask your professors if they have a preference.

more on: — EM DASH

Formed by two hyphens, dashes mark an abrupt break in a sentence. Less formal than either parentheses or commas, a dash—highlighting whatever is set apart—also creates a dramatic pause.

Use a dash (instead of parentheses) when a parenthetic expression is lengthy, contains commas, or deserves special emphasis:

My grandmother's house—the apartment in the city, not the clapboard cottage on the beach—has been sold.

Daynel told me—and don’t breathe a word of this to anyone��that he was fired Wednesday.

Use a dash to emphasize or to set off a single word, an appositive, or a summary:

There’s one way in which to succeed—hard work.

I cannot believe what she puts on her hamburger—sauerkraut.

They graduated, married, and divorced—all this change in just six months.

Use a dash to show an abrupt change in thought:

You are NOT dragging me to that movie—oh, what the heck, start the car.

Use a dash to mark an interruption or pause in dialogue:

“Would—would you mind terribly?”

- HYPHEN

Hyphenate multiple words acting as a single adjective before a noun:

state-of-the-art design

greenish-blue eyes

Hyphenate compound numbers:

twenty-eight

ninety-three

Hyphenate certain prefixes and suffixes:

all-school assembly

self-esteem

Hyphenate words to avoid ambiguity:

Since Sylvia auctioned all my records, I’ll have to re-collect them.

Hyphenate some compound words to avoid awkward double or triple letters:

anti-inflammatory

cross-stitch

Use a dictionary to check standard usage of hyphenated words, e.g., whistle blower, whistleblower, or whistle-blower.

Never use a hyphen between an adverb ending in “ly” and the adjective it modifies.

. . . ELLIPSIS

Use three spaced periods (ellipsis) to indicate the omission of one or more words in a direct quote. Beginning a quotation with an ellipsis is unnecessary. End a quotation with an ellipsis only if words have been omitted from the end of the final quoted sentence:

“Now, as a nation . . . we were founded on the idea that everybody should have an equal opportunity to succeed.”

“brilliant . . . an amazingly insightful film”

If the ellipsis represents the omission of a complete sentence or more, use four periods instead of three:

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person. . . . We are the change that we seek.”

: COLON

Use a colon to introduce ideas or a series of details that explain the preceding independent clause. A colon may call attention to an appositive, example, list, or a quotation:

Only one thing was important to her: the truth.

The reasons for divorce are many: money, infidelity, children, or boredom.

The sense of unity with nature is vividly shown in Zen Buddhist poetry: “An old pine tree preaches wisdom.”

Use a colon when required by convention:

Biblical references: Genesis 1:1

Business letter salutations: Dear Professor Devall:

Certain titles and subtitles: Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Periodical Volume and Number: Harper’s 203:16

Periodical Volume and Page Number: Harper’s 203:98–101

Time: 12:15 a.m. to 12:30 a.m.

; SEMI-COLON

We use semi-colons instead of full stops to separate two main clauses. In such cases, the clauses are related in meaning but are separated grammatically:

Spanish is spoken throughout South America; in Brazil the main language is Portuguese.

/ SLASH

The slash indicates contrasting terms or paired items:

Durand took Advanced Astrophysics on a pass/fail basis.

Although the player/manager committed eight errors in three innings, he still wouldn't take himself out of the game.

When quoting a poem, use a slash to indicate the end of a line, adding a space before and after the slash:

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity.”

Sources and other related articles: 1 2 3 4 5

[bobbys-not-that-small]

PSA: everything Locklyle for the last few days of November!

Ok guys, while I don’t know enough about how tags work, last year we got #Locklyle to Number 77 in the top ships of 2023! This was posted on the 1st of Dec, which I think means we’ve got until the end of the month to get ourselves up that leaderboard!

If you have any Locklyle headcanons, drabbles, fic, artwork, memes, edits ready - now is the time to post them! And the rest of us can also help by reblogging and tagging! Am I overusing the exclamation marks?!

I’m gonna make a note to go through the tag tonight and queue a bunch of stuff for the next few days. Would LOVE to see us get closer to the top!

Who knows, it may have already passed the cutoff date for tumblr’s stats, but it can’t hurt! And otherwise it will just count towards next year, when we’ll be more prepared :)

Also as an extra note, some friends and I are thinking about planning some wee tags to get involved in come 2025! Watch this space!!

[prettyoddfever]

This off-white t-shirt that was for sale at some shows during the 2008 Honda Civic Tour was really popular and was usually the one you'd see people asking other fans to grab for them in late spring because their show sold out in their size. This is the shirt that was sewn into a vest for Ryan that season btw:

FBR added this shirt to their webstore in August 2008 and some sizes sold out quickly but then got restocked. I remember some people complaining that FBR's shirt was a slightly different color than the one on tour, but others said it was the same. Idk, it looked like the same general off-white color to me. The band's name was still on the back of the right sleeve:

I liked this design because it was SO different from most t-shirt designs in this era (like in general, not just PATD) and was way more minimalist. A fan created some pngs that we could print out to iron on our own shirts, so I'll add them here if anyone wants them. They used the "Big Noodle Tilting" font and created their own heart:

That fall Hot Topic also came out with an off-white tote that had the same large "reinvent love" design on one side. Then the design of the band name (from the t-shirt's sleeve) got a heart added and was enlarged to be the graphic on the other side of the tote. The inside of the bag was a floral pattern that reminded me of the striped hoodie's lining:

FBR clearly loved how successful this whole design was. The webstore included a bonus sticker in the order packages for P!ATD fans in fall 2008:

The Rock Band Live Tour shows in fall 2008 used the same type of graphic:

And the shows on that tour had a black tote & shirt for sale:

Spencer did an interview with Out.com this season that had this question:

The most popular items at your merch booth seem to be a t-shirt and bag that say “Reinvent Love,” which is such a strong, inclusive message. Tell me about how that became the band slogan. It started out as a lyric in “Mad as Rabbits.” It was the last song we were recording for the album, and as we figured out how to fit it into the end of the song, it took on some more anthem-style cheer. As we went on tour, me and Ryan [Ross, Panic’s guitarist] talked about making a “Reinvent Love” shirt. At first it was just going to be on the Fueled By Ramen web store, just a limited edition thing because it didn’t have our band name on the front, and we didn’t know how many people would want to wear that. It ended up being a lot more popular than we thought it would. We were ending all of the concerts with that song, so that was the last thing that people were hearing. We wouldn’t want to be a part of anything that wasn’t that kind of that message. If there’s going to be some saying associated with our band, that’s a pretty good one. It goes along with everything we want to represent and the way that we feel.

This bracelet was added to FBR's webstore in December 2008 (after the Pretty. Odd. era had basically ended & around the time that Live in Chicago was released):

By the time this necklace got added to FBR's webstore in January 2009, a lot of fans were tired of this theme:

The necklace spawned more fan jokes about what was coming next at that point... my favorite was still the musical toaster:

So in March 2009 FBR just added the black shirt & tote to their webstore (the ones that were sold at shows in fall 2008) and then let the phrase rest so they could soon move onto overusing the return of the exclamation mark. lol jk.

[kimjiwoong]

the problem with participating in secret santas and stuff like that is that i feel like i'm so obvious when I type sjdjd like ur gonna know it's me

[majorblinks]

You get to kiss 💋😘 Wony all you want for 1 day every week.

However, you're not allowed to spam capital letters for the rest of your week. And you also can't spam punctuation marks.

So no more "YEAHHHAEOFJAWOIE" and "Mother!!!!!!!"

How far do you think you could go before succumbing to the 🦷🦷🦷🦷🔪🔪🔪🔪 and 🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱🪱 in your brain?

"Here~"

Wonyoung wants your lips pressed against her cheeks in front of her members and not letting go until she says so, even when she is munching on food. Would you fulfill the princess's wishes or would you be too embarrassed to do so?

hiiiii frisky omfg i love this ask!!!!!!!!!! U KNOW ME SO WELL!!!!!!!

unfortunately i regret to inform u i would actually collapse and die if i wasnt allowed to spam capital letters/punctuation marks. would life even be worth living if i couldnt express myself in that way?????? it would be like losing a limb..... it would be robbing me of a core creative outlet........... i am an artist and my mediums are my capital letters and my rampant & glorious overuse of exclamation points and question marks and ellipses................... i do adore wonyoung & she is my baby.................... however i must listen to my heart and my heart tells me to continue to express myself through whatever means necessary no matter the sacrifices i have to make!!!!!!!!!!! </3!!!!! i would not even make it a DAY!!!!!!!! so sorry to wony!!!!!!!!!

anyway to make up for it (and for the MONTHS it will take before karina part 2 is done) here's some shit i have rotting in my when cameras are flashing part 2 doc which IS in fact featuring wonyoung.......

also some smutty stuff if ur a freak or whatever....:

i wrote this like 10 months ago so if none of it makes it into the final product then egg my house & key my car & throw tomatoes at me in an act of public shaming i guess. LOVE U ALL!!!!!!!!!!

(also to the last question YES i would smooch wonyoung in front of the other girlies if she asked......... BC UR SO RIGHT THAT'S PRINCESS!!!!!!!!!!!)

thank u so much for the ask!!!!!!!!!!! <3333